Water bearers

There are also two examples in terracotta and two examples in white marble (currently at an unknown location), all repertoires, made by Gargallo himself.

The author himself decided to cast each of the figures separately, with an edition of 7 numbered copies (unfinished) and 3 numbered artist's proofs (unfinished) of each of them.

He also made a copy - with variations - in stone, unique and repertoire, of the thickness; and a terracotta specimen, unique and repertoire, of the thin one.

Already around 1900, Gargallo made an ink and watercolor drawing representing an elderly woman, dressed in traditional peasant clothing, perhaps Aragonese, and carrying two jugs on her hip and on her head, the latter almost lying down. Many years later he would repeat the same theme through the drawing of an opulent semi-nude female carrying a large pitcher on her hip, Woman with pitcher, 1920, today belonging to the collections of the Pablo Gargallo Museum and included in this catalogue. Finally he modeled this delicious group, with which he apparently wanted to represent two eras and states of the female body and about which he used to joke that he had represented the women of Maella on the way to the fountain, which provoked the anger of the women of his town. , who were considered much more modest in daily life.

Both the Small Woman's Torso, 1925, and the Adolescent Torso, 1933-34, both in the collections of the Pablo Gargallo Museum, have their origin in the thin water bearer, which Gargallo retouched, modified and expanded, in each case with respect to the referent above, until obtaining two figures that are different in all aspects.